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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>IMHO you are just adding another potential
point of failure. Depending on your Cisco hardware you have loopback and Cisco
BERT (Bitrate ERror Tests) at your disposal.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Voll<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, March 10, 2011
1:04 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [cisco-voip] Telecom Guy
vs Network Guy.....</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>So my coworker and I have been having some discussions
on best way to move forward (I'm the new Network Guy, He is the old Telecom guy
;-)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Currently we use managed CSU/DSU's for terminating our
voice PRI's. This way we can loop the circuit and test, etc. we
also have things wired to use the T-bert for more testing.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would like to bypass this and go straight to the
VWIC's on the Router.... making it cleaner and less to troubleshoot as we have
had CSU's dieing lately.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>I know I can loop the VWIC both local and remote.
Can I do more testing from the router that would justify the move away
from managed CSU's?</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Would love to hear what others are doing.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>Scott</span></font></p>
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